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HORACE I). STEWART, 0F OAKS GORNERS, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 00,587, dated .December 18, 1866.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN z Be it known that I, HORACE P. STEWART, of Oaks Corners, in thercounty of Ontario, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful improvement in making Boot and Shoe Heels; and I do hereby declaro that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this speeifieation- Figure 1 being a top View of the improved boot or shoe heel, detached.

Figure 2, a. front view of the same.

As the outer soles of boots andshoes are quite rounded on the outer surface, especially at the heel, in building up the heels, the taps or separate thicknesses of leather employed have to bevpared away much in the centre, thereby wasting much leather. -Instead of thus forming the heels, -I use successive layers of Welts, a a., and taps or full thicknesses b, of leather, as clearly shown in iig. 2. These welts and taps generally, butnot necessarily, succeed each other alternately; or, in general terms, theyare used alternately to a su'ieient extent to bring the taps level at the bottom. Thus, not only do, I save the leather in full thickness, but make use of small strips of leather lin forming the welts, which might otherwise be of no use; and so I further eeonomize in the use of leather. y

I do not claim the use of welts in forming boot and shoe heelspbut what I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is y Forming the heels of boots and shoes by the alternate (or nearly so) arrangement of welts and taps, so as to build up the right shape without paring-away the material to any considerable extent, substantially as herein' speeied.

The above specification of my improvement in making boot and shoe heels signed by me this 19th day of September, 1866.

' HORACE P. STEWART.

Witnesses HARVEY CAREY, LYSANDERl REDHELD. 

